Tobacco cartridge for smoking pipes



L. BEISER Filed ug. 30, 1946 M Je u TOBACCO CARTRIDGE FOR SMOKING PIPES Nov. 14, 1950 Patented Nov. 14, 1,950

Leo Beiser, New York, N. Y. v Y

Application August 30, 1946, Serial N0. 694,018

1 Claim.

My invention relates to a device for lling smoking pipes with tobacco.

uA11 important object of the invention is to provide a device in the form of a cartridge having a plunger, which may be filled with tobacco before hand, and which will inject the tobacco' into the bowl of the smoking pipe.

A further object of the invention is to provide a tobacco cartridge for smoking pipes, which dispenses with the necessity of the smoker carrying with him a bulky, inconvenient, and often costly tobacco pouch.

A further object is to provide a device of the above mentioned character, which has a novel arrangement of parts, whereby the device may perform its function of lling a smoking pipe with tobacco, with one clean movement of such parts.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a device for lling smoking pipes with tobacco, which is compact, simple in construction, and inexpensive to manufacture.

Other important objects and advantages of the invention will be apparent during the course of the following description.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this application, and in which like numerals are employed to designate like parts throughout the same,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the pipe filling device embodying my invention, and showing the same, associated with the bowl of a smoking pipe,

Figure 2 is an enlarged plan view of the device,

Figure 3 is a central vertical longitudinal section taken on line 3-3 of Figure 2,

Figure 4 is a similar section taken on line 4--4 of Figure 2, and

Figure 5 is a horizontal transverse section taken on line 5-5 of Figure 3.

In the drawings, where for the purpose of illustration, is shown a preferred embodiment of my invention, the numeral 6 designates a cylindrical tubular casing, open at its top and bottom, and provided with generally horizontal transversely extending nger grips 1. These finger grips 1 are arranged near the open top end of the tubular casing 6, and are preferably formed integral with the casing. The casing 6 is further provided near its top, with inwardly extending plunger stops 1', which are preferably formed from the material of the finger grips 'I, as shown.

Arranged within the casing 6, and adapted to reciprocate freely within the same, is a cylindrical piston or plunger 8, secured to the top of which are spaced parallel hinges 9. The hinges 9 comprise spaced apertured knuckles I0, rigidly securedto the plunger 8, receiving pins I I. These pins also pass through apertured knuckles I2,v rigidly secured to the inner ends of short lateral-v arms or transverse extensions I3 of pivo'ted longitudinal arms I4 and I5, which are generally' straight and flat, and which are provided with generally rectangular transverse extensions I6, for purposes to be described. The armJI4 carries a lock or latch II, at its transverse center, andA spaced longitudinally from lthe transverse extens101116, for engaging in an opening I8 formed`v in the arm I5.

The operation of the pipe filling device is a follows:

The pivoted'arms I4 and I'l5 are swung upwardly, on the hinges 9, to their positions shown in Figure l, and shown dotted in Figure 3 of the drawings. 'The arms will remain in this up-v standing position, because the latch I1 engages within the opening I8 and holds the arms together. The plunger 8 is at the upper end of its travel, and against the plunger stops 1, which prevent the plungers complete removal from the upper end of the casing 6.

Any desired tobacco is now introduced into the lower open end of the casing 6, which is of course inverted in the hand, and this tobacco should be packed in firmly, so that it will not tend to fall out, even when the lower open endY of the casing is held downwardly, after lling. The arms I4 and I5 are now swung downwardly to their positions shown in Figures 2, 3, 4, and 5, and in these positions, the rectangular transverse extensions I6 meet and engage beneath the lower open end of the casing 6, and provide a bottom cover for the casing. The arms I4 and I5 will remain in this position, by virtue of the frictional spring engagement of the extensions I5 against the lower end of the casing 6.

It is thus seen, that the device is now filled with tobacco, which cannot escape, and the amount of tobacco which the device contains is enough to fill the bowl of the average smoking pipe. Several of these compact and clean tobacco cartridges may be carried by the smoker, instead of the usual tobacco pouch.

When it is desired to fill a smoking pipe with tobacco, it is merely necessary to swing the arms I4 and I5, of one of these devices, to their upper latched position, where such arms serve as an actuator rod for the plunger 8, and where the, transverse extensions I6 serve as a plunger actuator to be pressed by the thumb of the smoker.

I'he lower end of the device is brought into engagement with the bowl of the pipe to be iilled, as shown in Figure 1. The smoker places his index finger and second nger beneath the grips 1, and presses the top surfaces of the transverse extensions I6 downwardly with his thumb, similarly to the way a conventional hypodermic needle is actuated. The plunger 8 moves downwardly, and pushes or injects the tobacco within the casing 6 into the pipe. The cartridge can of course be relled with tobacco, and its use continued.

Special attention is called to the novel arrangement of the hinged arms I4 and I5, and to their extensions I6, which are designedftoserve alternately as a closure or bottom cover for the casing 6, and as a plunger actuator, when the smoking pipe is being filled with tobacco. Theextensions I6k also perform a still further function of limiting the downward travel of the plunger 8, and-these extensions limit such travel by engaging the upper Yend of the casing Y6.

VItis to be understood, tha-t the form of my vinvention, herewith shown and described, is to be taken as a preferred example of the same, and that Various changes in the shape, size andarrangement of parts may be resorted to, without departing from the spirit of my inventionor the scope of the subjoined claim.

VHaving thus described my inventiornwhat I claim is:

A device for filling smoking pipes with tobacco, comprising a tubular casing yfor `holding tobacco and having its opposite ends open, diametrically oppositely arranged nger engaging elements disposed adjacent to the upper end of the tubular casing and bent laterally outwardly vfrom the sides of the tubular casing and integral there- 4 the tubular casing, lateral arms hingedly connected to the top of the plunger near opposite sides of the same and adapted toswing from inwardly to outwardly projecting lateral positions, longitudinal arms carried by the lateral arms and adapted to lie close to opposite sides of the tubular casing when the lateral arms are in the laterally outwardly projecting positions, one longitudinal arm having an opening, the other longitudinal arm carrying a lresilient latch element which projects laterally outwardly when the longitudinal arms lie close to the sides of the tubular casing, and flat lateral extensions on the lower ends-of vthe-longitudinal arms and projecting inwardly adjacent to the bottom end of the tubularl casing to positions where their free edges meet to completely cover the bottom end of the tubular casing when the longitudinal arms lie close to the sides of the casing, the longitudinal arms being swingable to axially extended contacting positions abovethe top end of the tubular casing where the at Llateral extensions project laterally outwardlyupon opposite sides-of the contacting arms to form a substantially flat thgumbactuator for the plunger, the resilient latch element engaging in the opening of the opposite lon- REFERENCES"(J1-TED i The .following references are of record in the I ile of this patent:

with, laterally inwardly projecting plunger stopsV formed from the materialof the finger engaging elements and projecting-inwardly of the sides of the. tubular casing at the top end thereof, a

plunger longitudinally slidably mounted within UNTED STATES PATENTS Number VName Date 841,453 Rynehart Jan. 15, 1907 945,676 Baron Jan. 4, 1910 4012* 1,665,955 Gatewood Apr. 10, 1928 Coryell Jan. 15, 1929 

